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Perspire

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to sweat, especially from heat, exercise, or nervousness
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Stage 1 of 2
perspirare
Latin · ancient
"to breathe through"
to breathe through, from per- (through) and spirare (to breathe)
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Stage 2 of 2
perspire
English · 1600s
"to sweat"
settled as the English word for sweating
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